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Name:________________________Date:__________Period:_____ Rocks and Minerals Test Practice Be able to answer/do the following: 1. What is coal made of? __the remains of plants___________ 2. Describe igneous rocks that are high in silica. ________________ ____________________________________________________ 3. What type of rock is limestone? _____sedimentary__________ 4. Igneous and metamorphic rock make up about how much of Earth’s crust? ______almost all_________________ 5. As ancient sand dunes go through compaction and cementation to form rock, what are they recording information about? ______past temperature conditions____________________ 6. What is the most common type of rock at Earth’s surface? ______sedimentary_______________ 7. What are some things that people use rock for? building houses, carving statues, and sources of metals________________________ 8. Describe rocks. _they are always solids_______________ ____________________________________________________ 9. What type of rock is formed when magma cools slowly into rock? ____intrusive igneous rock_______________________________ 10. A metamorphic rock melts. This molten rock then cools and becomes solid. These processes are part of what? The rock cycle_________________________________ 11. The remains, or traces of an ancient organism that have been preserved in rock are called what? a fossil_______________ 12. Which part of the rock cycle is the beginning? The end? ___there is no beginning or end___________________________ 13. If you have a rock sample that has parallel bands of minerals that formed under high pressure, what do you have? ____________ a foliated metamorphic rock_____________________________ 14. Igneous rocks often form long-lasting landforms. Why? _______ igneous rocks are usually harder than other types of rock______ 15. Is it true that a rock can contain to minerals? If so, name a type of rock that has no minerals. It is true. Coal has no minerals___ ___________________________________________________ 16. Be sure you know your vocabulary words. 17. Be sure that you understand how to use Mohs Scale
